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How to use unallocated space after cloning SSD/HDD? Besides, the unallocated space may exist before and after the cloned partition. That’s what you ended up with, an exact copy of the original partition. You get the same layout because you cloned exactly the same file system and partition tables.

Does anybody know how to deal with this?”ĭo you have the same confusion after cloning hard drive to Samsung SSD or to other kinds of hard drive? The most possible corresponding answer would be, you clone the old drive byte for byte. I'm not sure why cloned hard drive left unallocated space and how to fix it. However, if I go to Disk Management, Windows recognizes it as a 1TB drive and there is also an unallocated space after the 500GB partition. Here is the problem: After cloning and replacing the HDD with Samsung, Windows only sees (in Windows Explorer) and allows me to use 500GB of the Samsung drive. I immediately bought a 1TB Samsung SSD and cloned the old HDD to the Samsung using some software.

So I immediately thought that the drive was about to fail. “I originally had a 500GB HDD and suddenly my PC kept freezing with the HDD lights staying on.

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